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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

Seneca the Younger

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

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